Grantham.PA@PARC-MAXC.ARPA (01/16/84)
From: Tod <Grantham.PA@PARC-MAXC.ARPA> Alex, Your informant was correct. From the book FIRST ON THE MOON by Gene Farmer and Dora Jane Hamblin (copyright 1970 by Little, Brown and Company Inc.): " At 9:56 PM, Houston time, Neil Armstrong stepped out of the dish- shaped landing pad and onto the surface of the moon: ' THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR A MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND'" (page 321) footnote 1: " Mission Control in Houston recorded Neil Armstrong as saying ' That's one small step for man...' without the article 'a.' Tape recorders are fallible. When Charles 'Pete' Conrad, the flight commander of Apollo 12, stepped onto the moon on November 19, 1969, he paraphrased the quotation: 'Whoopee, man, that may have been a small step for Neil, but that's a long one for me.'" (page 509) Tod Grantham Xerox Corp. Palo Alto Research Center